Mass-Mediated Terrorism

Mainstream and Digital Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Third Edition

Brigitte Nacos

With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media’s appetite for shocking, sensational, and tragic stories has always resulted in over-coverage of terrorist events and threats. But today, social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, allow terrorists to communicate directly with huge audiences around the globe spreading their propaganda, radicalizing and recruiting followers, and providing know-how to “lone wolves.” On the other hand, governments in democracies, too, utilize mass media to enlist public support for counterterrorist measures. This volume will help readers to understand the centrality of media considerations in both terrorism and counterterrorism.« lessmore »

Brigitte L. Nacos is an adjunct professor in political science at Columbia University.

Terrorists Always Found Alternative Media: Same Objectives, Different TechnologiesComputer-Assisted Political Violence or E-TerrorismTraditional Media, Terrorism News, and the Virus of ContagionAttack on America as Breaking News—a Case StudyTerrorism and Mass-Mediated Gender StereotypesPolitical Violence as Public EntertainmentIndexing, Propaganda Model, and Counterterrorism News: How the News Media Cover CounterterrorismChapter 11: Responding to Terrorist Crises: Dealing with the Mass MediaChapter 12: ConclusionBibliography

Nacos’s needful third edition is the best there is. No other book is as accessible, as comprehensive, as insightful, as timely, or as useful in parsing bitter election-year debates about how to define, discuss, and respond to terrorist violence at home and abroad. Every American should read it. Now.— David A. Green, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture

• New edition of a successful text that explains the centrality of media and communication in the terrorist scheme and in the ways governments respond to terrorist strikes and threats.• First edition was Highly Recommended by Choice. • Complete update and rewriting of the previous edition.

Mass-Mediated Terrorism

Mainstream and Digital Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Third Edition

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With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media’s appetite for shocking, sensational, and tragic stories has always resulted in over-coverage of terrorist events and threats. But today, social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, allow terrorists to communicate directly with huge audiences around the globe spreading their propaganda, radicalizing and recruiting followers, and providing know-how to “lone wolves.” On the other hand, governments in democracies, too, utilize mass media to enlist public support for counterterrorist measures. This volume will help readers to understand the centrality of media considerations in both terrorism and counterterrorism.

Brigitte L. Nacos is an adjunct professor in political science at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Terrorists Always Found Alternative Media: Same Objectives, Different TechnologiesComputer-Assisted Political Violence or E-TerrorismTraditional Media, Terrorism News, and the Virus of ContagionAttack on America as Breaking News—a Case StudyTerrorism and Mass-Mediated Gender StereotypesPolitical Violence as Public EntertainmentIndexing, Propaganda Model, and Counterterrorism News: How the News Media Cover CounterterrorismChapter 11: Responding to Terrorist Crises: Dealing with the Mass MediaChapter 12: ConclusionBibliography

Reviews

Reviews

Nacos’s needful third edition is the best there is. No other book is as accessible, as comprehensive, as insightful, as timely, or as useful in parsing bitter election-year debates about how to define, discuss, and respond to terrorist violence at home and abroad. Every American should read it. Now.— David A. Green, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture

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Features

• New edition of a successful text that explains the centrality of media and communication in the terrorist scheme and in the ways governments respond to terrorist strikes and threats.• First edition was Highly Recommended by Choice. • Complete update and rewriting of the previous edition.